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nektos / act

act

Run your GitHub Actions locally 🚀

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111Mentions
3Explicit recommenders
72.7KGitHub stars
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Run your GitHub Actions locally 🚀

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You can run your own github actions compatible-ish server. https://github.com/nektos/act Personally my favorite is probably drone-ci. I'd suggest not buying in too hard on any…

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 9:01:12 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year111 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2019-01-15 16:26:09 UTC to 2026-08-17 14:54:15 UTC.

05101520252019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 4 submissions, 0 comments20192020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 2 submissions, 1 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 18 mentions; 2 submissions, 16 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 17 mentions; 1 submissions, 16 comments20222023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 23 mentions; 0 submissions, 23 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 6 mentions; 0 submissions, 6 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 24 mentions; 3 submissions, 21 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 16 mentions; 1 submissions, 15 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

* An incomplete calendar period is marked with an outlined bar. Its count is not directly comparable with a full period.

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC440
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC321
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC18216
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC17116
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC23023
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC606
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC24321
2026 (partial)2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC16115

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